disciple, n. 1. pupil, scholar, student, educatee; learner, apprentice.
2. votary, devotee, follower, satellite; adherent, partisan, sectary; supporter, promoter, booster; proponent, advocate, defender, apologist; successor, upholder, representative.
3. convert, proselyte; apostle, evangelist, missionary, emissary; Relig. follower of Christ, Christian.
disciplinarian, n. martinet, drill sergeant, hard master, formalist, stickler; taskmaster, trainer, coach, teacher, authoritarian, tyrant, despot, dictator,
discipline, n. 1. drilling, training, coaching, exercise; development, preparation, instruction, schooling; inculcation, indoctrination, systematization; drill, routine, method, practice, procedure.
2. direction, rule, government, subjection; control, regulation, check, restriction, limitation, restraint, curb, reins; compulsion, coercion.
3. correction, chastisement, reprimand, reproof, rebuke; punishment, castigation, penalty.
4. branch of knowledge, course of study, curriculum, subject, course, specialty, major.
-v. 5. drill, train, coach, exercise; instruct, teach, tutor, give lessons, school, edify; inform, enlighten, inculcate, indoctrinate; ground, prepare, prime, qualify; rear, bring up, form, guide; inure, accustom, familiarize, habituate, toughen, harden, break in, put through paces.
6. control, ride herd on, direct, govern, supervise, oversee, preside over, manage, conduct; lead, hold in hand, hold or keep in line, regulate, regiment; restrain, check, curb, hold or keep back, contain, arrest; harness, bridle, rein in, hold in, leash, muzzle; restrict, constrain, confine.
7. correct, chastise, reprimand, reprove, rebuke, criticize, make an example of; punish, castigate, penalize.
disclaim, v. 1. repudiate, renounce, (usu. under oath) abjure, forswear; deny, gainsay, contradict, disaffirm; disavow, retract, recant, recall, unsay, take back.